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There is a significant number of historical buildings with different destinations in Romania and all of these are yet dealing with major problems in terms of energy efficiency. The legal status of these buildings involves various restrictions concerning solutions that might be applied in order to ensure itsпїЅ energy efficiency. Therefore, applying the classic solutions to maintain the thermal comfort within patrimony buildings becomes very hard to accomplish or even impossible in some cases. The purpose of the st...

Solar energy technologies have been in continuous development to cope with the increasing demand. Since the solar energy supply is variable in daytime and zero at night, a considerable amount of solar energy should be stored during the daytime to meet the demands at night. In any solar energy system, a storage unit is required because of the non-constant nature of solar energy; at certain times, only a very small amount of radiation or no radiation is received. This introduces the idea of using Phase Change Materi...

In the present days the need of obtaining good and economical solutions for thermal insulation of the new and old buildings, it is compulsory. This fact leads to the need of developing new insulation materials all over the world. Such a new material it is tasted now in the west part of Romania, named Thermoconfort Plus B. The panels are made by polyurethane rigid foam combined with polyisocyanurate which is laid out between two sheets of vapour barrier material. The edges of the panel are factory manufactured to a...

The possibility and practicability of usage aluminiferous waste in the production of aluminate cements were studied. Aluminothermic slag, calcareous component and alumina in row stock was correlated for different compositions of aluminate clinkers. Clinkers were making by electric-arc melting at temperature 1600 ??. There was found a difference in mineral composition under conditions fast and slow cooling aluminate melts. In case of fast cooling main phase was calcium bialuminate and high glass-like phase content....

Geophysical monitoring is a new trend in applied geophysics studying the impact of ground waters on foundations of modern buildings. Here we show that recording variation of physical fields associated with ground water dynamics is a highly efficient tool for understanding the impact of ground and industrial waters on architectural monuments. This new methodology was first tested by the author on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin to determine the nature of geological processes that influence building foundations i...

Wood based panels are mostly used in the building industry. Using these panels in details of flat roofs is one from their advantages. Problem occurs in the case of increased humidity mainly by leakage or water vapor condensation in the construction which causes degradation of panels. That causes also changes in basic characteristics and reduces the bearing capacity. This work contains utilization of the most used wooden panels. In thesis author evaluates influence of humidity in flat roofs details on creation of m...